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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Salty25" data-source="post: 534697" data-attributes="member: 185281"><a href="http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2008/796/6538/" target="_blank">Official Race Classification</a> | <a href="http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/7/8125.html" target="_blank">Full Story</a>Lewis Hamilton completed back-to-back wins for the first time this season with 1st in Hockenheim, and the balance of power is now firmly with McLaren.Starting in pole, Hamilton had reason to feel confident going into the race, with Ferrari rivals Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen looking off-colour in qualifying, and the BMW Saubers also falling away from their high point in Canada with the Kubica victory.LH’s race looked to be going to plan right from the start – good start, made a comfortable lead ahead of 2nd placed Felipe Massa, got back into the lead after the first round of pit stops were completed. All to plan, and then Timo Glock had a massive crash from a suspension failure in lap 36.The safety car predictably appeared, and the teams were left with the common dilemma – to pit early or to hope the safety car goes in quickly and built up an advantage. While nearly everyone choose to pit, including Kovalainen, McLaren choose not to call Hamilton in. This was a brave decision, and one that nearly cost Hamilton big time.The safety car took much longer to go back in than hoped, and Hamilton was not able to get the lead needed before he pitted in lap 50 (17 from the end). He came out behind Nick Heidfeld, Nelson Piquet, Massa and Kovalainen.Kova quickly relented, and when Heidfeld went in for his last stop, the mission was clear – pass Piquet and Massa to win. Nelson Piquet in 1st? Yes, the Brazilian had battled throughout the race from 17th on the grid, and when he pitted for his one and only time just prior to the Glock accident, “Nelsinho” was gifted one of the best opportunities anyone outside of McLaren and Ferrari will get to win.Hamilton first had to defeat Massa. LH closed in very quickly indeed, and although Massa put up a fight of sorts, Hamilton overtook Felipe at the hairpin with relative ease. Massa would finish 3rd. To win, Hamilton had to get in front of Piquet with 10 laps to go.No problem. Just 3 laps after seeing to Massa, Piquet had nothing left to battle against Hamilton and Lewis inevitably took 1st at the same hairpin. Piquet finished in 2nd behind Hamilton.Heidfeld came out of the pits to claim 4th ahead of Kova, in 5th. Taking the final 3 points places were Raikkonen (6th), Kubica (7th) and Sebastian Vettel (8th). Kimi, while having no problem fending off any challenges from behind, offered little in the way of an assault on the podiums places.<a href="http://www.formula1.com/results/driver/" target="_blank">Drivers’ Championship</a> | <a href="http://www.formula1.com/results/team/" target="_blank">Constructors’ Championship</a>Hamilton is 1st and 4pts in front of Massa. Kimi is 3rd and 8pts behind the leader. While not winning again, Ferrari still sit on top of the team standings, and McLaren look likely to dislodge BMW from 2nd in Hungary.<a href="http://www.purefantasyf1.net/MyPFF1sat.asp?MYD=41&LA=En" target="_blank">SupaLiga 2008</a><img src="http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/4585/f1slgermanyshorttablech6.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />(Full table available in attachment)Whilst there were no big movers n’ shakers this round, the league is delicately poised and the points were plentiful in Germany with 4 +100 scorers – there have not been so many since Brazil last season when 6 teams achieved the feat.F1 Aberdeen scored 101pts, 6 more than Auto-Dynamo, but Norm’s 16pts lead is still vulnerable with 8 races to go. Dynamo are still at the front in the chase for the European Cup.With 124pts, Team Oily was top in Germany and this equals Oily’s all-time record when he also scored 124 in Hungary last season. This is the highest score in SupaLiga this year so far, and Oily will be hoping that this propels him into a late challenge for the title. Champagne for him!The other centurions today were kleefarr’s Honda-Willaims with 115pts (best ever for him), and 110pts for Topper and his Tossers.Norm in the Pure FF1 Cup > Despite the Supas scoring 101pts, they still can’t seem to get any closer to the magic top 32, and with 31pts to make up in 3 races in such a competitive league, the situation is looking bleak now.NEXT RACE > HUNGARIAN GP @ HUNGARORING > AUGUST 3</blockquote>

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